I'm trying to stick to the time line concept on this book, but I'm getting to a grey area where the timeline might become less important. Since I write in stream of consciousness, I've been writing stories and then weaving them into their respective positions in the timeline that I've chosen. There is still plenty of arranging and writing to be done, but I can see the progress. Each time I write, I do a word count and that gives me the satisfaction and gratification that I need to keep writing. On Anywhere But Home, I got disappointed after, what I felt, was a large amount of writing to find that I only had 17 pages complete. I stopped writing for a while and decided to format what I had done up to that point and it turned out that with the proper formatting, I had actually written 70 pages. From there I could see the possibility of the goal I had set for myself (272 pages. The length of my favorite book). With the second book, I don't know where it's going to end or have any specific length in mind... I'll keep typing.